Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system to be installed at national border, goes online by Aug

In November 2014, it was announced that The Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) was to employ an Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system to identify vehicles with foreign registration plates with unsettled summonses. Now, said system is set to be installed at nine locations at the Malaysian border and is expected to be operational by August, Bernama understands.

“At least, 20 units of ANPR worth RM30 million will used to track down traffic offenders in the first phase. We are in the process of buying the scanner,” commented Bukit Aman Traffic Police staff officer, Supt. Zulkifli Yahya. “ANPR, using technology from the USA, will be widely used in states bordering neighbouring countries, including to track down foreign nationals with outstanding traffic summonses,” he added.

The scanners, installed in patrol vehicles, will allow police officers to act immediately on traffic offenders. Additionally, the system will also aid police officers in tracking down vehicles involved in other criminal activities as well as stolen units.

An ANPR operation on Friday in Johor Bahru resulted in a total of 4,200 outstanding speeding summonses collected from Singaporean motorists – it was reported that a sizeable chunk of it was for speed-related offences. Since 2010, more than 700,000 traffic offences have been issued to foreign vehicles, with Singaporean units making up 500,000 of the total figure.

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Actually it is not difficult to track foreign cars. While the customs officer checking on passports, another guy can just key in the number and check online. Why introduce IT system when it can be done manually?

Somebody wants to makan the RM30 million. Singapore does it so simple. When you give your passport and car number, they just check their database for any saman. So, you cannot go in or out of Singapore without paying up your saman.

This is VERY clear somebody got the contrat to supply these cameras and going to makan the RM30 mil

Speaking of foreign number plates, I have a few doubts:
1. Are foreign plates required to conform to our JPJ “no fancy plate” rule?
2. How we could differentiate between Brunei plates and Selangor plates, since they too start with the prefix “BXX”. The scanner can tell the difference?
3. Would you consider vehicle carrying Thai number plate as “fancy”? since it is probably harder to comprehend.

“The said system is installed at nine locations…” vs “the scanner, installed in patrol vehicles…” how does that work really?

“An ANPR operation on Friday in Johor Bahru resulted in a total of 4,200 outstanding speeding summonses collected from Singaporean motorists – it was reported that a sizeable chunk of it was for speed-related offences. Since 2010, more than 700,000 traffic offences have been issued to foreign vehicles, with Singaporean units making up 500,000 of the total figure.”
Amazing figure from singaporean :p

A RM 30 million ANPR system to track foreign-registered vehicles at our borders? WTH. Use ANPR to monitor our own vehicles first to reduce automotive-related crimes. Chances are higher to trace and recover stolen vehicles as well as track those who are blacklisted, have tons of summonses and flagged vehicles driven by criminals.

WTH~ RM 30mil for 20unit? those ANPR Camera is cost RM5000 max per unit. The ANPR fail to implement in Malaysia is because our car plate is not standardise. So the system difficult to implement. Stupid government ~

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